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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 397 dark lunules ; fringes pale to below the tail, then brownish. Head, thorax, and abdomen all ochreous. Underside brighter ochreous, with coarser mottlings, and all the markings rather plainer, the 3 black spots being merged in one large one. Expanse of wings 50 millim. Hab. Bhotan. [Besides the type, which was taken by Moller's collectors in August, I have three specimens from Bernardmyo, Burmah, taken by Doherty in May at about 6000 feet. They agree perfectly.- H. J. E.] LEPTOSTICHIA, gen. nov. Fore wings with costa very gradually curved till near apex, where it becomes strongly convex; apex bluntly produced; hind margin incurved just below apex, then oblique and straight to anal angle. Hind wings ample, with very round hind margins. Antenna?, 3, beset with fascicles of fine cilia. Palpi short, thick, blunt, the 3rd joint very minute; tongue present. Legs long and w7eak; hind tibia? with 2 pairs of spurs. Neuration :-Fore wings : 1st median nervule at \, 2nd at §, 3rd from lower end of ceU, the median nervure between the 2nd and 3rd being inclined upwards ; discocellular curved, starting from the upper radial at a short distance beyond the point where that nervule leaves the subcostal; lower radial from centre of discocellular; 1st subcostal nervule from the same point as the upper radial; 2nd a little beyond 1st; 4th and 5th at a similar distance beyond 2nd; 5th running straight to hind margin below apex; 4th curving into the apex itself ; 3rd out of 4th shortly before apex. Hind wings : 2 subcostal nervules separating just before end of ceU, so that the discocellular rises from the 2nd subcostal, as in the fore wings from the upper radial; median nervules as in fore wings. Type, Leptostichia latitans, sp. n. LEPTOSTICHIA LATITANS, sp. n. 3. Fore wings liver-colour, suffused with dull olive, and tinged in parts with lilac-grey; 1st line indistinct dull olive, slightly darkened on costa and inner margin, where it is preceded by a few pale lilac scales ; 2nd line at 4, darker on costa, dull olive, edged indistinctly with grey, runs first outward, then obliquely inwards, to a little beyond the centre of the inner margin, where it is preceded by a round black blotch; to the inside of this blotch a central ohve shade can be faintly traced from a darker spot in the middle of the costa; marginal area wholly dull olive, except a narrow grey space immediately before the fringes; space between the 2 fines overlaid with slightly paler grey scales. Hind wings redder, with a curved hne at §, answering to the exterior line of the fore wings, and between that and the base a broad, straight, blackish shade. Head, thorax, antenna?, and abdomen all concolorous. Underside dull tawny-orange, sparsely flecked with rather coarse fuscous dots, with a larger discal spot in the fore PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1893, No. XXVII. 27 |